The president of the United States and the Justice Department, with the full support of Sen. Dan Sullivan, are abusing our justice system to intimidate Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg and violate his civil rights.
That’s the only way to interpret the news that broke on Election Day that a federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to try to prosecute Petersburg Sullivan for having the gall to run against an incumbent Republican senator with the same name.
Read MoreFormer Assembly Member Barbara Haney, a Republican state House candidate in House District 33, didn’t bother to check the facts before passing along false information from Facebook, an attack on one of her opponents in the race, Fairbanks teacher Pepper McFarland, an independent.
Read MoreThe gas pipeline garbage ad, paid for by Interior Republicans, a group chaired by former school board member April Smith, is dishonest and inaccurate. Appearing in a season of stupid ads created with AI, it is unbelievably stupid.
Cynthia Henry, the GOP national committeewoman, is a deputy treasurer of the group, along with GOP activist Fred Vreeman. Smith is the treasurer. They are responsible for this propaganda, but their names are missing.
Read MoreFrom here on the News-Miner will be in the hands of a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that deserves community support. Without it, we will not have a newspaper at all.
Read MoreOne of the most important items on the state election ballot Tuesday is Ballot Measure No. 1, which would bring back campaign contribution limits in Alaska.
This is not to be confused with Ballot Measure No. 2, which is not on the ballot in Alaska until November.
Read MoreLt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who has crowned herself the queen of the speech police in Alaska, needs a lesson about freedom of speech.
Read MoreOne of the secret agreements between Glenfarne and the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation deals with what the state would be required to pay Glenfarne if AGDC decides the company needs to go.
“The repurchase price is based on the value Glenfarne has added to the company,” according to a leaked document that says Delaware law, not Alaska law, would govern the matter.
“If there is a dispute on the price, an independent investment bank will have 20 days from the date they are engaged to determine the final price,” it says.
Take this to the bank—there would be a dispute on the price and any investment bank that would be forced to decide in 20 days would be tempted to split the difference at best.
Read MoreAs with every other contentious topic during his 12 years in the Senate, Sullivan thinks that responding to critics of the war in Iran with an avalanche of words and digressions about the gas pipeline, ANWR, etc.—assembled by a committee of his employees—will bury readers so thoroughly that all recipients of the missive will surrender and beg for mercy.
Read MoreThe supporters of the campaign to repeal ranked choice voting are groveling before the world’s richest man as Elon Musk tries to buy a voting system that pleases him in Alaska.
With this move, the Republican campaign against ranked choice voting becomes an effort by Musk to buy a voting system in Alaska that meets with his approval.
Read MoreBut they failed to even mention the name of Alaska’s junior senator, who is running for reelection and is more important in this debate than Murkowski because Sullivan will cast the deciding vote to make Blanche the attorney general.
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